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Daniel Gwozdz
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''Reality has a liberal bias.''
Firefighter, Systems Infrastructure Architect, Roovian, & Technogeek extraordinaire. Anti-racism. Anti-fascism.

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · Sep 18
This is feeling very Timely today...
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dell.bsky.social
Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."

MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Minnesota says DHS actively interfered with efforts by police to investigate the shooting, then abandoned the scene without handing over a secure perimeter, potentially spoiling evidence.

The state agrees its request “should be unnecessary,” but we are in unprecedented times.
But federal personnel purported to order BCA personnel to leave. According to reports, federal personnel may have seized cell phones, taken other evidence from the scene, and detained witnesses. It is unclear whether federal personnel otherwise processed the scene-let alone how carefully. Then just a few hours after the shooting, federal personnel left, allowing the perimeter to collapse and potentially spoiling evidence. From a law enforcement perspective, this is astonishing. The federal government's actions are a sharp departure from normal best practices and procedure, in which every effort is taken to preserve the scene and the evidence it contains. Instead, by first attempting to bar BCA and then letting the scene collapse, the federal government appears to have taken measures that directly led to the destruction of evidence.
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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joshgerstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension & Hennepin DA file fed lawsuit dmeanding immediate access to federal evidence in DHS agent's deadly shooting of observer during immigration enforcement operation Sat. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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January 25, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
BBNO$
“i haven’t spoken about this due to my visa status, but fuck it i don’t stand for this shit, never have and never will. the senseless violence in our current world is sickening. abolish ICE.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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gstarr.bsky.social
A man acquitted by a jury of a plot threatening Bovino was captured by ICE anyway after his acquittal, with DHS saying, in part: “this verdict does not change the facts: Espinoza targeted federal law enforcement with violence via Snapchat.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Man acquitted of Bovino murder plot taken into ICE custody
Juan Espinoza Martinez now faces deportation despite the courtroom victory Thursday by his attorneys.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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kaitave.bsky.social
The one conservative joke is "I identify as an attack helicopter," while the one liberal joke is "lol these guys are homogays who suck cock because they're gay"
January 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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ladork.bsky.social
Just watched Blade Runner with an in-sync live orchestra at the Dolby Theatre. Yeah, that didn't suck.

You know what will? Watching any epic movie now without one!
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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eva.town
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
Wanna know one of the best things about Mr. Rogers growing up? I never knew anything about his political opinions. He just entertained kids. That's it.
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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cwebbonline.com
SEEING IS BELIEVING

DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.

📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.

DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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theonion.com
“For weeks, Democrats have pushed to require ICE agents to obtain the necessary judicial warrants ahead of any murders they plan to commit,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in a joint statement on the current Homeland Security funding bill
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
WASHINGTON—In a statement calling for more guardrails around ongoing immigration operations, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives publicly condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thurs...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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startribune.com
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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steventurous.bsky.social
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
Announcements Sullivan Elementary • 10:30 AM • To: Sullivan Elementary Hello Sullivan Families, we have learned that ICE is sending out flyers offering food support to families. For your safety, do not respond to these offers. If your family is in need of support, please contact the school and we will connect you with one of our School Social Workers. Thank you!
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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themilfmag.net
this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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yung-davy.bsky.social
one of the strangest and most frustrating things about being alive today is that we have science and research on basically every issue, but it always gets pushed aside in favor of some guy who thought about it for one minute and thinks he knows the answer
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
Why is crime falling? We asked the worst and dumbest people in America to explain it
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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afscme.bsky.social
In a bombshell disclosure, the Justice Department has admitted that employees of DOGE did, in fact, jeopardize the security of Americans’ personal Social Security data. “Exactly as we warned,” said AFSCME President Lee Saunders in a press statement. www.afscme.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump administration admits to mishandling private Social Security data
The Justice Department admitted that employees of DOGE had, in fact, jeopardized the security of Americans’ personal Social Security data.
www.afscme.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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jaredmcclain.bsky.social
We just filed another mistaken identity case

A SWAT team showed up to arrest someone as a nearby school let out students for lunch. They held a random kid at gun point because he had the same skin color as the suspect, & still perp walked him after realizing their mistake

ij.org/case/maine-m...
May 13, 2025, started like any ordinary day for Amber and Nathan Miller's sixteen-year-old son L.M., whose name is withheld because he is a minor. L.M. attends Deering High School, where it's common for students to leave campus to get lunch. As he was walking down a sidewalk to join his friends to drive to McDonald's for lunch, a team of police in SWAT tactical gear carrying rifles rounded the corner behind him. The officers were after a different person: a man named Miles Hibbard, who lived in the neighborhood and was suspected of a minor burglary. Although Hibbard had never been accused of any crime before, much less one involving weapons, violence, or hostility toward police, South Portland police decided to send an entire SWAT team to arrest him—they came prepared for a shootout next to a high school in the middle of its open lunch period. Before the officers saw anything more than the back of L.M's head, they drew their rifles, ordered him to stop and put up his hands. Terrified, L.M. immediately complied. He continued to comply as officers ordered him to walk toward them in the street, lie down on his stomach, and put his hands behind his back.
January 22, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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sodrock.bsky.social
Dawg
January 22, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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junlper.beer
this is absolutely horrifying. we live in a deeply sick world led by spiritually bankrupt people
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d
Jared Kushner presented a 'master plan' for Gaza at the Board of Peace event this morning. Slides included 'New Gaza' and 'New Rafah'.
January 22, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
marykmac.bsky.social marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · Nov 25
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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hutchinsondave.bsky.social
I feel that this may not turn out to be a good idea.
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
futurism.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:37 PM